By Antynet Ford
A police officer based at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), Nairobi is in custody as he helps his colleagues in investigations into the circumstances under which he lost the weapon.
The police constable was reportedly robbed of his G3 rifle with 20 bullets after he stepped out of his place of work.
The officer together with a colleague were manning the landing zone at the airport when the incident happened earlier this week.
They were both armed at the time of the incident. It is believed the victim left the place of work and walked out of the compound where he was attacked and robbed of the rife.
He later reported he had lost the weapon prompting an operation in vain.
He was arrested as a team of detectives embarked on efforts to trace the weapon.
It is believed whoever was behind the incident, if any, must have planned for it for a while. The officer was in his official uniform at the time of the incident.
Senior police officers visited the scene when the report on the same was made.
It comes a few days after a police officer was shot and injured before being robbed of his gun in an attack in Samburu County.
A team of police officers had intercepted the Mercedes Benz Actros truck and were escorting it to a local police station when they came under attack.
Police said the officers were attacked in the Mlima Tatu area with the gunmen engaging the two officers in a fierce shootout.
During the incident, the bandits fired several rounds, injuring one officer in the left thigh.
They later grabbed his G3 rifle loaded with about 60 bullets and vanished with it.